cbse exam 2008

first question papers in the examinations for class X and class XII under Central Board of Secondary Education started on Saturday across the country and abroad passed smoothly.The class-XII students appeared in the Chemistry paper while Class-X students sat for Information Technology. However, the students did not find any problem to answer them. For the first time, 20 per cent of the questions required 'high-order thinking skills' as prescribed by the National Curriculum Framework (NCF), the guiding document for preparation of NCERT textbooks .